Report:US Equality Act to be reintroduced to House in February - Democrats making good on promise to Erase Away the Gay

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[–]BEB[S] 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

By amending the legal definition of "sex" to include "gender identity," the Equality Act will throw gay men (and women's) sex-based rights into limbo, erase gay men (and all women) as distinct and coherent legal categories by making it impossible to legally define "same-sex attraction" "homosexuality" and "sexual orientation."

tl;dr the Equality Act will Erase Away the Gay

If you care about yourself, get on the phone to your congressional representatives (msg me if you don't know who they are) NOW and demand that they vote against the Equality Act.

Identify yourself as LGB, and if you're not a conservative, make sure and tell your congresspeople, because the Gender Gods are claiming only conservatives oppose the Equality Act.

The two goons behind the Equality Act are Jeff Merkley, Democratic Senator of Oregon, and FUCKING David Cicilline, Democrat House member from Rhode Island, who claims to be an advocate for LGBT in Congress.

Call Rep Cicilline and Senator Merkley too and tell them NO to the Equality Act and that LGB wants the TQ+ dropped now,and to STOP FUCKING with GAY rights.

Because if the Equality Act doesn't get you, the backlash will.

Signed, Someone who remembers when gay men couldn't walk down the street, much less come out.

[–]SilverWolf 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Could you explain why this is bad a little more please? I understand that women will be forced to let men who identify as women into their spaces, because only "gender" will matter, which is obviously a problem, but how does this legally affect sexuality?

[–]BEB[S] 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sorry - I didn't reply in this thread, but must have replied in another.

This is what I replied to a similar question someone else on this sub asked:

The Equality Act changes the legal definition of "sex" to include "gender identity," which has no real definition beyond vague phrases that often rely on sex role stereotypes.

For instance, Facebook offered 50 gender identities in the US and 70 or so gender identities in the UK. The UK's BBC just had a video it was pimping to kids that claimed 100 gender identities. How can we legislate based on gender identity when no one knows what it is, no one can describe it accurately, and so no one knows how many there are?

We pretty much each have our own gender identities. It's called a personality.

To make things worse, some (if not all - I'm not a lawyer so I don't know) of the laws protecting gays in the US are on the basis of sex, once "sex" legally includes the nebulous term "gender identity" who and what are those laws protecting?

Here is a very good site on the Equality Act's impact on women's rights. Some of it applies to gay men too so I would suggest Americans check it out and then take action - Call Congress, say you're LGB and say NO to the Equality Act.

https://usequalityact-women.com/

[–]censorshipment 13 insightful - 4 fun13 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Heterosexual folks claiming to be gay, and no one can say they're not gay because they identify as a trans lesbians / trans gay men?

Saying that Janet Mock is a homosexual/gay male, not a straight woman, because he identifies as trans is illegal now, I assume.

[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I replied to someone else in this thread (I think it was this thread) so please read that reply.

[–]hetisachoice 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Identify yourself as LGB, and if you're not a conservative, make sure and tell your congresspeople, because the Gender Gods are claiming only conservatives oppose the Equality Act.

And if you are, then point out that this is one of many reasons why.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I agree. I am an issues, rather than party voter, and, when I call elected officials, I always make sure to say exactly why I voted or didn't vote for them.

The stripping away of my rights under the Equality Act is important enough to me that I will not vote for a candidate, nor the party (the Democrats) that support it.

I'm assuming the Democrats are getting a shit ton of money from Big Pharma, Big Tech and the cross-dressing Billionaires Boys Club that fund the gender lobby, because, as Americans realize the full effects of the Equality Act, the Democrats are going to realize that they committed political suicide.

But at least, maybe, the politicians pushing this (Gavin Newsom, Pelosi, Schumer, Cicilline, Merkley and a whole bunch of other Democratic rat finks ( and I HATE the GOP too) - can retire from politics wealthy from all the dirty money they stuffed in their enormous pockets as a result of selling out gay kids, gay men, biology, free speech, parents and women.

[–]hetisachoice 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Hate the GOP for the right reason: namely for turning its back on Trump, who seems to get the fundamental difference between LGB and TQ+

[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Sorry, but I think you have it backward: Trump explicitly said he didn't care what bathroom transgenders used.

I have had experience with Trump (sometimes almost direct) since the 1980s. He can only give a fuck about himself, but he's a typical New Yorker of his era and his own carnal impulses, so doesn't give a shit about women, and mildly supports gays (afterall, they're men) and hot lesbians, if their rights never affect him.

If Trump thinks transgender is part of LGBT, he would probably, in private, mildly support them too, but only if it didn't matter to him and his profits.

Trump's administration is a different story: for whatever reason some of his cabinet, even the otherwise loathsome ones like Betsy DeVos, held the line on women's rights against the gender colonizers. I have to reluctantly thank them.

[–]hetisachoice 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Both conservative and liberal women have been attacked for opposing TQ+ extremism, and the fact that so many of Trump's enemies are for it speaks volumes to me. We cannot lose another generation of gay people.

[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with your first assertion, but the second...

As I said, I have actually dealt with Trump (through one degree of separation) on issues that took a lot of back and forth.

Trump is for Trump. He could care less about social issues (and leans slightly liberal) unless they affect his bottom line, so will follow the flow on most in the direction of whichever way is profitable for him. In my experience with him, Trump was not particularly racist, but, as we saw, he used race when it suited him.

[–]mvmlego 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Trump explicitly said he didn't care what bathroom transgenders used.

Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only person who remembers this. As I said before, I think that Trump would have been socially moderate if cable news media didn't try so hard to vilify him--which just ended up alienating him into aligning himself with the evangelical and establishment wings of the Republican party.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If you care about yourself, get on the phone to your congressional representatives (msg me if you don't know who they are) NOW and demand that they vote against the Equality Act.

What should we do about the associated Executive Order? Who do we contact, and what action do we tell them to take?

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Contact your elected officials about Biden's Executive Order, on all levels of government, because, AFAIK, it will affect local laws too.

So, contact your US congresspeople, your state legislature representatives, your city council/mayor, your local school.

Also contact Biden at the White House:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

[–]fuck_reddit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I presume/hope someone will sue saying that it violates the civil rights act

[–]julesburm1891 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

American ladies and gents, this is the time to contact your representatives. We need to speak up now or TQ will just keep rolling over women and LGB people

[–]BEB[S] 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Trojan Horse comparison could not be more apt: In the 90s transgender activists very deliberately targeted the gay rights movement for takeover. Once transgender activists got inside the gay rights movement they hijacked it for their own ends.

Gay and women's rights (and biology and children's mental & physical health, and free speech) are the City of Troy.

[–]chazzstrong 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Oh look, another reason to say 'Fuck Biden'.
I've got a lot of those these days.

Also, if you voted for this piece of shit, you got no room to complain. You were fucking warned.

[–]davids877Straight Male Man 7 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Don't blame me, I voted for the meteor.

[–]BEB[S] 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I didn't vote for Biden. But Trump, who is a narcissistic lunatic, doesn't care about gay rights either.

And the GOP has its own Equality Act waiting in the wings, the Fairness for All Act, which, destroys gay and women's rights too, but carves out religious exemptions to the gender lobby's madness.

[–]mvmlego 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Time for a third party, bro. The next time you would vote for a Democratic candidate just to stop the Republican candidate (or vise-versa), find someone you know and trust IRL who would do the opposite, and then agree to both vote for a less objectionable third-party candidate.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I tried that this last time.

It is very hard to get a third party going in the US IIRC because of ballot access laws.

[–]hetisachoice 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Mental health slurs are hate speech, not political discourse.

[–]hetisachoice 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The entire slave party has the blood of LGB on its hands at this point. Get over your Trump hate. The time to do that was 2017.